Natalie Ebolum

Natalie Ebolum joined Baron & Budd as an associate in 2026 in the firm’s Pharmaceutical Litigation Group. Ms. Ebolum represents clients who have suffered catastrophic injuries or the death of a loved one due to defective medical devices or harmful medicines.

Ms. Ebolum graduated from the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science degree in sociology and criminal justice, and a concurrent Bachelor of Arts degree in Africana studies. She knew she wanted to be a lawyer early on, and to that end pursued a master’s in criminal justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, graduating magna cum laude in 2014 having authored an ethnography-styled master thesis while concurrently serving as an adjunct professor in John Jay’s  Department of Law, Police Science, & Criminal Justice Administration. She found that teaching college students about the complexity of the criminal legal system was immensely satisfying and is an avocation she has continued for more than a decade, calling it a most “rewarding labor of love.”

Ms. Ebolum entered law school at Louisiana State University’s Paul M. Herbert Law Center in Baton Rouge in 2016, graduating with her juris doctor in 2019. During a year-long judicial clerkship for the Honorable Douglas H. Hurd in Mercer County, New Jersey, Ms. Ebolum served as lead law clerk for the court’s civil division, authored its official clerk’s training manual, sat on a COVID advisory board with the New Jersey Administration of Courts to perfect the flow and normalcy of judicial proceedings, and served on the trial training team for Phase I reopening, in addition to training all incoming Civil Division judicial law clerks.

Dearest to Ms. Ebolum’s heart, however, was her work with the Court Appointed Special Advocate organization in the New Jersey Family Courts, Newark Vicinage. There, she advocated for children in foster care who were removed from their homes due to severe neglect and physical, and/or sexual abuse. As a case supervisor, she led training for the state’s Department of Child Protection and trained hundreds of volunteers to serve as advocates for children. As a program director, she developed a strategy to connect teenage foster youth with extended family members and served as the community outreach and legislative liaison for CASA. In her multiple roles with CASA, Ms. Ebolum was deeply devoted to serving as the eyes and ears of the Court regarding the holistic wellbeing of the children assigned to her.

Beginning in 2021, Ms. Ebolum worked as a trial attorney for the Federal Public Defender’s Office in the Northern District of Texas in Dallas, and then in 2024 for the Federal Defender’s Office in the Middle District of Alabama. These stints provided extensive litigation and trial experience in handling federal criminal proceedings.

When she is not advocating justice for Baron & Budd clients, Ms. Ebolum enjoys traveling with her family to new destinations and eating good food. In her spare time, she mentors high school students and gets plenty of exercise by engaging in her twin loves of choreographed dancing and working out.